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- Convenors:
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Matt Burrows
(University of Reading)
Sally Lloyd-Evans (University of Reading)
Esther Kerubo Oenga (University of Reading (UoR))
Lorna Zischka
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- Format:
- Experimental
- Stream:
- Doing development research
- Location:
- Palmer G.01
- Sessions:
- Friday 30 June, -
Time zone: Europe/London
Short Abstract:
We propose a workshop between activist researchers, community partners, and conference delegates, focused on community-centred, participatory approaches informing ways of relating with each other in research engagements. Lessons learned are key to co-creating equitable solutions in the Anthropocene.
Long Abstract:
PAR and Engaging Environments are projects affiliated with the University of Reading, which centre community and participation. Both networks include activist researchers, community organisers and partners, and students, collaborating on research - we want to bring them together to workshop how these approaches and lessons learned can inform how we relate to each other and generate equitable environmental and social solutions.
The approach centres the voices and viewpoints of marginalised groups, so people are more definitively heard, supported and empowered, as those most affected by the climate crisis. The response to living in the Anthropocene and associated crises, demand an approach that co-creates equitable solutions, requiring interdisciplinarity and new ways of caring, connecting and relating between universities, community partners and marginalised communities.
Themes include foundational principles, emotional and personal labour required, creative methods, resource investment, the place of trust and responsibility, current challenges and opportunities, and how to hold and make space for new ways of relating.
At the conference, we'll host a 'panel' of 6-8 people from different disciplines, career stages and lived experiences, invited to respond to provocation for ways of relating in the Anthropocene, from the perspective of the community-based approach.
Accepted contribution:
Session 1 Friday 30 June, 2023, -Pranamika Doimary (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)
Contribution short abstract:
Drawing from field immersion experiences from 2018-2019 in Mohgoan, a village in the Dindori district of Madhya Pradesh, the idea is to comprehend the community and researchers' challenges in participating together.
Contribution long abstract:
In the beginning, the community as a part of constant interaction with the researcher to ally is challenging. For the community, many things foreground these relationships, mainly safe keeping of the daily conversations and how the researcher is the custodian of this information at the end. Immersion thus becomes an integral method of engagement with the community of people within the field immersion. Action research helps establish collectives that come together to address their common concern. These could only have been arrived at by coming into contact and interacting with them. The immersion has provided an opportunity to witness everyday experiences and negotiations. It pitched forward the layers of underneath patterns of activities which can be challenging to understand without the everyday encounters. Mohgoan, the immersion field, is inhabited mainly by the Gond tribe, an Adivasi community residing in the regions around Central India. Participation in itself has a varied genealogy in development thinking and practice than is usually acknowledged. It is where the focus of participation within the development has been witnessed during the 1990s, with its gradual spread towards Participatory Rural Appraisal(PRA) and then treating it as a definitive form of participation. (Hickey and Mohan 2004) Community participatory actions led to increased confidence between the two, resulting in community-researcher participation.